by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Food & Nutrition is the 228th most popular major in the country with 3,131 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Plains States region, there were 291 food and nutrition graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 246 food and nutrition graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in food and nutrition. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in food and nutrition.
Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree food & nutrition students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lincoln University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Plains States Region list. LU Missouri is located in Jefferson City, Missouri and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 26 bachelors’s food and nutrition degrees to qualified students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Nebraska - Lincoln. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Plains States Region. This large school is located in Lincoln, Nebraska, and it awarded 163 bachelors’s food and nutrition degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Waldorf University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Forest City, Iowa, this small private for-profit school awarded 8 degrees to qualified bachelors’s food and nutrition students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Missouri - Columbia landed the #4 spot on the list. University of Missouri - Columbia is a public institution located in Columbia, Missouri. The school has a large population, and it awarded 49 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.
Full University of Missouri - Columbia Food & Nutrition Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Dakota State University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Food & Nutrition Major in the Plains States Region. Brookings, South Dakota is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s food and nutrition degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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